The 12-game world chess championship match between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand in Moscow has now reached the halfway point without a decisive game. The game was another Slav, and this time Gelfand varied from his earlier attempts with 6.Qc2, bu...
Kamsky in Clear First; Zatonskih, Krush Still Even at U.S. ChampsBy Mike KleinSAINT LOUIS, May 18, 2012 -- GMs Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky entered round nine of the 2012 U.S. Championship tied with six points apiece. They could not have had mo...
BLACK TO PLAY. The level has seemed pretty high at the World Championship so far, as confirmed by commentator Jan Timman, but as chess fans we want to see fireworks as well. The Game of the Week in ChessVibes Openings #176 is Ni Hua-Le Quang Liem ...
Vishy Anand had his third game with the white pieces today, and for the third time he failed to breach the defences of his Israeli challenger. The game started promisingly when Anand switched to 1.e4 and instead of responding with his usual solid...
Nakamura, Kamsky Win, Zatonskih and Krush DrawBy FM Mike KleinThe 2012 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship did not change leadership today, though the two tournaments produced much different levels of excitement.With the two top seeds ...
While Evgeny Sveshnikov attended the World Championship match in Moscow for the first time, Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand played "his" opening today. For the first time in this match the World Champion played 1.e4, and the challenger cho...
Fabiano Caruana won the 20th Sigeman & Co tournament in Malmö, Sweden on Wednesday. The Italian grandmaster scored a splendid 5.5/7 which was half a point more than Peter Leko and good for a 2853 performance rating. Anish Giri and Nils Gr...
19 year-old Fabiano Caruana has won the 20th Sigeman & Co Tournament in Malmo, Sweden. The Italian-American led the 8-player single round-robin event from the start, scoring 4 wins, 3 draws and no losses to win the competition with a score of...
Zatonskih, Kamsky Draw Even with Leaders in U.S. ChampsBy FM Mike KleinDramatic finishes punctuated an unpredictable day at the 2012 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women's Championship. When the final pawn was captured, a 101-move game ended in king v...
Vassily Ivanchuk has won the 2012 Capablanca Memorial Elite tournament in Havana, Cuba with a score of 6½/10. Ivanchuk went undefeated in the 6-player double round-robin event, successfully defending his title from last year and earning his 6th v...
Boris Gelfand repeated the opening from game two in the fourth match game of his challenge for the World Chess Championship against Vishy Anand. Anand's super-solid Slav never looked like being breached, as accurate play from the champion extingu...
The fourth match game between Boris Gelfand behind the white pieces and Vishy Anand behind the black pieces was drawn after 34 moves. Again the World Champion from India defended himself with a Chebanenko Semi-Slav and again he got equality with B...
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Vassily Ivanchuk won the Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba on Monday. The Ukrainian, who finished a point clear of Ian Nepomniachtchi and Leinier Dominguez, won the tournament for the 6th time in his career. Vassily Ivanchuk against Ian Nepomnia...
The World Chess Champion Vishy Anand came agonisingly close to scoring the first win of his title defence against Boris Gelfand in a pulsating third game. Gelfand choose the Gruenfeld Defence in a repeat of game 1, but this time Anand was prepare...
Nakamura Still Leads, Krush Inches Ahead at U.S. ChampsBy FM Mike Klein SAINT LOUIS, May 13, 2012 -- Round six of the U.S. Championships maintained the stasis – the top three rated players still sit one, two, three with a couple of other solid pl...
The spectators in the State Tretyakov Gallery saw an exciting game today between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand, which eventually ended in a draw again. The World Champion got some advantage with his 3.f3 against Gelfand's Grünfeld, but ev...
Hikaru Nakamura is in sole lead at the U.S. Championships in Saint Louis, USA after six rounds. The highest rated American grandmaster, currently #7 in the world, won three games and drew three. Reigning champion Gata Kamsky is half a point behind...
The 11th Asian Continental Chess Championships have reached a conclusion in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The championships ran from 5-13 May, and the main Open event was won by 19 year-old Parimarjan Negi of India (pictured). Negi won the 9-round S...
What’s the best and most unique thing about chess? Of course it’s the fact that we have long lasting world championship matches. The immense tension is not restricted to one or two hours (football, tennis), or a few days at most (crick...
Nakamura Leads U.S. Champs, 3-Way Tie Atop U.S. Women'sBy FM Mike KleinFor the first time in the 2012 U.S. Championship, one player rests atop the leaderboard. With his win today in round five over co-leader GM Gregory Kaidanov, local GM Hikaru Na...
Kaidanov, Nakamura Share First at U.S. ChampionshipBy GM Ben Finegold and Mike Wilmering SAINT LOUIS, May 12, 2012 -- After four rounds of the 2012 U.S. Championship, an upset victory by GM Gregory Kaidanov has catapulted him into a first-place t...
It was Boris Gelfand's turn to play the white pieces in game 2 of his match against Vishy Anand for the World Chess Championship in Moscow. The challenger elected to play 1.d4 and Anand chose the Slav Defence in reply. A battle of opening prepar...
The second match game between Boris Gelfand and Vishy Anand also ended in a draw. Against Gelfand's expected 1.d4 Anand chose the Chebanenko Slav (or rather a hybrid of the Semi-Slav and the Chebanenko, the later being characterized by an...
